Definition of "homophones" [homophones]

• Plural form of homophone. (noun)

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• "I wonder whether we could call phonetically similar words/false friends cf. subash's example 'homophones'?"
• "Here, puns make use of 'homophones' which are words with the same sound but different spellings: thus, 'dye' versus 'die', 'Shear' versus 'sheer' and so on."
• "Not to be an ass, but ‘accept’ and ‘except’ are neither homophones, nor do they share a meaning."